Author: Chris Baldwin

Quentin Grimes could have been in Las Vegas, hanging out at NBA Summer League like so many of his professional peers. He could have been anywhere a well paid, handsome, young athlete wants to be this summer. Which is pretty much anywhere they desire. B…

As Houston Astros manager Joe Espada gives his postgame press conference in the interview room, general manager Dana Brown is in the hallway outside, slinging his backpack over his shoulder, still wearing the sports coat he came to work in. Brown did h…

Alex Bregman returns to the Houston Astros clubhouse drenched in sweat, his gray T-shirt soaked through. It’s more than 40 minutes since the game ended and Bregman is still putting in the work. This is the scene the night before Bregman walks off…

When University of Houston quarterback Donovan Smith is asked if anyone has surprised him on this UH offense, he considers the question for a beat, like he’s reading the defense at the line, before delivering a decisive answer. “The first o…

With the University of Houston athletic director search in its fifth week, one thing has become clear. Oliver Luck is not interested in the job and has never been a candidate to replace Chris Pezman as the Big 12 school’s new AD. “As much a…

The University of Houston is retiring the number of Don Chaney, the legendary Cougar basketball star who helped integrate UH athletics and went on to become a standout NBA player and coach, PaperCity has learned. Chaney’s No. 24 will be put up in…

In a college athletics world that is more topsy-turvy than it’s ever been in history, one that sees the University of Houston fire its blue-uniform-obsessed athletic director Chris Pezman on a random summer Thursday, the staying power of Kelvin S…

Chris Pezman certainly did not help himself in a weird last year that saw him go after the University of Washington athletic director job and seemingly fixate on those Houston Oilers-style blue uniforms at a time when his University of Houston athletic…